This article focuses on the management of "intellectual property" assets in the electricity meters industry in Britain in a period when the electrical industry started gradually to become competitive in relation to the established manufactured gas industry.
In this case, this kind of prudence would be a shame — a voracious public intellectual should be taking a whack at electricity and primordial matter and anything else that isn't tied down.
In this case, this kind of prudence would be a shame a voracious public intellectual should be taking a whack at electricity and primordial matter and anything else that isn't tied down.
Electricity would remain little more than an intellectual curiosity for millennia until 1600, when the English scientist William Gilbert made a careful study of electricity and magnetism, distinguishing the lodestone effect from static electricity produced by rubbing amber.
It's clear there will be changes in the way electricity is generated, transported and consumed…if we can crack smart grid, we will have intellectual property we can export across Europe and the planet"3.
